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Body & Soul
It was Saint Thomas Aquinas who coined the Latin phrase anima forma corporis, which means “the soul is the form of the body.” The soul, as I said previously, is defined as the first principle of life for all humankind. Anima (the Latin word for “soul”) animates that which is alive.
We are a soul and at the same time a body. We must avoid dualism; human beings are a unity. The soul is in the body, and the body is in the soul. Put simply, we do not have souls—we are souls; we do not have bodies—we are bodies. And they are united. Our body needs our soul in order to live and move—to animate it. And our soul needs our body in order to reveal itself, to be made known, and to act.
In this sense, the body is the instrument of the soul. They need each other. Together, they make us who we are. As Jennifer M. Rosner points out, “The body is not an accidental feature of our humanity; rather, our bodies fundamentally constitute what it means to be human.”
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